On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:49 PM, ben gomez farrell wrote:
I'd say it stands a decent chance of supporting a bunch of formats
eventually. Remember this thing is built on Apollo, and you can
build your Apollo app with HTML. Maybe Apollo won't support HTML
pages with plugins (except for Flash) at launch, but it would be in
their best interest to render webpages as they appear in your
browser, which means bringing in Quicktime support and others.
Just speculation though!
Initially there is not going to be any support for any motion video
format other than FLV. In the 1.0 release, Adobe 'might' include the
ability to run external applications to handle a file of a certain
type, but it definitely won't be integrated into the application any
time soon.
Although WebKit includes support for plugin libraries, Adobe might be
getting itself into a legal quagmire if it tried to 'pipe' the video
data through any other player plugin (WMP, Quicktime, Real) into it's
own interface. That remains to be seen though.
All they'd really need to do to kill other media players would be to
add support for the libavec libraries (FFMpeg and MPlayer) and they'd
be able to playback a few hundred different formats.
Definitely going to be interesting though ...
- jon
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